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Originally Posted by thefourthtower
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No. 2 are complete and a 3rd is currently under construction.
That whole area is a clusterfuck though. I live in the apartments directly south of them, and the placement of roads is pretty horrible in relation to the commercial buildings. Basically driving through the commercial property is much much quicker than using the city roads...so everyone does it. The commercial property then responded to this by putting up signs saying that it's private property and thoroughfare was illegal. That hasn't stopped anyone, obviously, and never will. If you introduce a quicker way to get to somewhere then people are going to use it.
What also grinds my gears is that apartments were built with far too few parking stalls to accommodate demand. I don't know what the city bylaw is for multi-unit dwellings, but it's probably 1.5 cars per unit or something like that which is unrealistic today. There are probably 2.5 cars for every unit if I had to guess. Every night Tutor Crt fills up will vehicles (including blocking all fire hydrants). Harbour Landing Dr used to also fill up, but this year the city banned parking on it for the entire area around the apartments, which is ridiculous. I imagine the concern was that the road would be too narrow in the winter, but they should have just blocked one side. Right now if you want to have people visit you (or you live there but can't get an extra spot) you sometimes have to park 2-3 city blocks away because there is no on-street parking available for that distance because the city has banned it. The city did the same thing for an area in the west end, and in both cases they gave no notice to residence. So people move into these areas expecting nearby parking, and then the city bans it for blocks in each direction.
Altern (owners of buildings) have also sold off all the visitor parking to tenants. I think there are 3-5 visitor spots now for about 350 units. Yeah, seriously. And tenants park in them every night anyway. Oh, and want a handicap spot? Tough luck because Altern also eliminated all of those and sold them to tenants too. And want to park 3 blocks away and walk to a unit? Tough luck there too because Altern takes 2 days to shovel the sidewalk after it snows. And once you reach their property want to walk from the street to a building across the parking lot? Too bad, because they don't even clear their own internal sidewalks at all, they put up signs saying they are too dangerous, and then proceed to shovel snow onto them all winter. So you have to walk in the middle of driving lanes the entire way from the street 100-200m to a unit on the other side of the complex.
They are fine to deal with in terms of building issues, but their parking lot management is the worst I've ever seen anywhere and I would actively recommend that anyone not move onto their properties because of this.
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